Re: why not use IMAP FLAGS?

[Stewart Smith <stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 15:32 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> It's the way it is. How is it broken? You may not *like* it, but it
> does what it claims to do perfectly well, doesn't it? If filesystems
> or tools can't handle large numbers of inodes, then I'd say it's
> their fault. It's 2007 and we have gigabytes of RAM and fast disks
> everywhere now.
Oh, I *really* do like Maildir... it's elegant in so many ways.

It's just unfortunate that no current file system is geared towards
performing well on large maildirs.

There's also the fact that for a 200,000 message maildir... readdir,
open,read,close and sorting the resultant mess to produce a listing of
messages is a lot of syscalls.

-- 
Stewart Smith (stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
http://www.flamingspork.com/


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